Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1942 — Page 6

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DARWIN, VITAL COMTINVBD riK»M rAOB <>NW> that th* antiaircraft batteries which had lieeti rushed to the Dur win area ax soon as the war started had accounted for some of th* attacking planes Print* Minister John Curtain had mad* th* first announc-met of the raid personally, from hla sick bed at a hospital where he lx recoverIna from acute gaatrltls. At that time It was known only that a number of bombs had been dropped. Curtain said he would make a full announcement as soon as he had received detailed news. "Astralla has now experienced direct physical contact with the war.” h* said. “The policy of the government la total mobilization for all Australia I'ntil we have put the ne<ea«»ry machinery Into motion, ail Australians must voluntarily asi'.wer the government's call. Everything must ba given, completely, to the ration.'* An Australian air force com-1 munlque said Australian planes i bad encountered Japanese fighter plane opposition over the Bls- 1 march Islands. northeast of the ' continent, In their reconnaissance flights yesterday Japanese at-i tempts to interfere with the Aus-! tralian planes were unsuccessful, , It was added. Japanese planes made recon- ' nalsaance flights over New Gulena. between the Bismarcks and the ( continent .the communique said, i bnt dropped no bomba In attacking Darwin the Japan- 1 eae had extended their aerial of- . Beware Coughs fr®m commfln colds That Hang On Creomulaion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw. tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes Tell your druggist to sell you h bottle of Creomulaion with the understanding you must like ths way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION For Coughs. Ch««t Colds. Ironchtfi*

mil«*n from the Rangoon-Mandalay Truck Ix)ad of Florida ORANGES — TANGERINES — GRAPEFRUITS THIS WEEK-END Florida I TANGERINES I GRAPEFRUITS ORANGES EZ-Peal I Pink Moat 15c doz. I 15c doz. I 7 for 25c MARSH — GRAPEFRUITS — SEEDLESS SUNKIST Eating and Cooking ORANGES APPLES Sweet Seedleae 2 Doz. 25c 7 tbs. 25c . -POTATOES— U. S. No. 1 Large • Site COBBLERS MICHIGAN COBBLERS Fine for Seed 38c pk. $1.39 ba. 23c pk. $1,49 cwt. —VEGETABLES—BROCCOLI, Freeh Tender RADISHES. Criep, Solid Calif., Large Bunch, only 10c S bunchea..loc HEAD LETTUCE, Criep, CABBAGE. Freeh Solid, Solid. Calif. S'/,e 3 Iba. 10c CELERY, Pascal, Large.. 10c CARROTS 2 for 15c ' phone r|alcer Moo w "‘ 8 “* 1300 IJdlSy IfSiSV ot Slrwt FRUIT MARKETS

Public Sale Ai I am quitting farming I will mH at public auction on the ol< Hunt farm, located mile east of Tociln, on Road No. 224; or 8 mllei west of Decatur. Ind., on Road No. 224. on SATURDAY, FEB. 21,1942 Sale Starting at 10:30 A. M. HORSES MATCHED TEAM— One matched team dapple grey geldings, com Ing 6 yean old. weight 3500 lbs., sound and good workers. 14 — CATTLE — 14 One Guernsey cow, 7 yrs. old. will be fresh February 24, a 7-galtoi cow; one Guernsey cow, 3 yn. old. will be fresh April 1, a 5-gallon cow one Jersey cow. coming 4 yn. old. will be fresh March 10. a 4-galloi cow; one Guernsey-Jersey cow. 3 yrs. old. will be fresh March 13. a 4 gallon cow; one brindla cow. ( yrs. old. wiH be fresh April 10. a 6-gal lon cow; one Guernsey cow. 3 yn. old. on good flow of milk, will b fresh May 22; one Jersey cow. 3 yn. old. on good flow of milk, will b fresh July 31; one brindle cow, I yrs. old. with calf by side, a S-galloi cow; one Black Jeney cow. coming 4 yn. old. with calf by side, a 4 gallon cow; one Shorthorn bull, coming 2 yn. old ; one brindle bull call be 1 yr. old In May; one Jeney heifer, be 1 year old In March. 28 — HOGS — 28 One Spotted Poland sow. with I plga; one white sow, will Carrot first week of May; one black sow. will farrow last week In April; 1 head feeder eboata, weigh around 100 lbs. POULTRY Twenty-five head mixed yearling hens. HAY ANO GRAIN Three tons good alfalfa-rod clover mixed hay; 40 or W bushel oats, good for seed; some corn; 1 bushel mixed grass seed. FARM IMPLEMENTS One iron wheeled wagon and hay ladders; one wagon box; o»s 5< tooth harrow; 2 corn plows; one John Deere horse double disk; on Oliver riding plow; one two-wheeled stock trailer. MISCELLANEOUS One double set work harness and collars; one hog feeder; 3Mt hog trough*: one Fairbanks A Morris 1-horse gas engine; some pin lumber- many other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS—CASH Anyone wishing credit can make arrang<iments at Farmers 4b Mei ebants Bank betbre day of EARL ELZEY, Owner Sllewberger Bros.. Auctioneers Amos Gerber, Clerk Lunch served on grounds.

fenslve 1,100 miles to the Wes from New Guinea. CAL E. PETERSON —. rnfCTTNUEn FROM PAQB ONB I Burke, lire school instructor. I Mrs Holthouse reported ths I plans for the women's rally io b< 11 held at the Decatur Catholic hlgl , school on March 12 have beel j furthered. The event la to bknown as a women's reglatratioi , rally. All women of the count) will be given an opportunity to «n i roll in defense work. RED CROSS CENTER ■ CONTtWDMD r>l(W PAOB OSSI at the production center. The Geneva branch was opened several weeks ago and with the De : catur center, gives Adame count) three production centers AMERICAN TROOPS iCOMTDWD FROM FAOR 0X1) ported Dutch ground troops, although heavily outnumbered, still arc fighting In south Sumatra, the Dutch communique said. They art making every effort to prevent the i Japanese from < raahing through to the Nunda Straits between Sumatra 1 and Java. The communique revealed that In addition to flve Japanese bombera shot down out of a group of 24 which attacked the big Soerabaja naval base yesterday, four more Japanese planes were hit In an | attempted attack on a Dutch air- ' field in East Java In this attack 1 slight damage was caused and one , native was wounded. Battle In Burma Rangoon. Burma. Feb. 19.—4 VP) —Allied forces officially were re- | ported fighting furiously today in l a big battle that has been raging : for 38 hours in the Billn river sec- . tor of the Burma front. Th* fighting continued without a pause throughout the night and this morning after Japanese spear- , heads had thrust across the Billn , river within leas than 50 miles of j the Burma road supply line to China. The main enemy attack was directed toward Kyalk-To. 25 air

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ii >. railroad at Pegu, but a second big I battle was In progress about 175 t miles to the north in central Burma where Chinese forces had been r| stationed. (Dispatches from Chungking said k that Chinese forces on the north p ern Burma sector had defeated Thailand troops and driven them back toward Chlenghal, In an ad- . vance "step by step’* against Thailand, but there was no Infor--1 mation as to an Invasion of Thai territory.» The Japanese driving toward Rangoon, which has been partly ( evaluated, apparently had been I forced out Into the often paddy lands of the Billn front after a long 1 period of attack by inflltering f through the jungle. » ; MONROE NEWS F —. Among the out of town relatives and friends that attended Albert Duers funeral Saturday afternoon were. Miss Felecia Duer and Mr. and Mrs. Win Stettler of Toledo. Ohio. Clifton Duer and family and Mr. and Mrs. Manaa Lehman of Fort Wayne, Frank Duer of Crawfordsville. Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Hendricks of Colon. Michigan. Mrs. Hattie Michael of St. Ixiuis, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith of Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ray of Convoy. Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Reffey of Mt Pleasant. Mich. O M Reffey and Mr. afld Mrs. James Reffey of Sulphur Spring. Ohio. Rev. Olin Leman and Miss Pauline Reynclda of Flint. Mrs. Pearl Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Zwahlen and Miss Anna Lindeke all of Fort Wayne Mr and Mrs. Dick Stahl of Geneva. Mrs. Elixa Brubaker. Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reffey. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Baker and Mrs Harry Merriman from Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Huser. Mr. and Mrs. Wilds Rawley. Mr. and Mrs. Paul McClain and Mrs. Clem Smith of Berne. Mr and Mrs. Everett Rico entertained members of the Builder's Class at their home Monday ingWm. McKean has been a patient at the Lutheran hospital In Fort Wayne since last Tuesday and Is

/Youth Gets Life for Attacks

jr ■sh • Jr fl ' I f R f 1 B ■ y-|S gMjsmFMWefe. . k / V Ml ' ■ iH B > • ' - « >./■ »• DevM Reeae SteSey 111, at right Convicted of attacking a score of women "to free his mental pro- *■ cesses," David Reese Steffey 111. right, IS-year-old Chicago youth, hears himself sentenced to life imprisonment in Judge Julius H. Miner's court in Chicago. Judge Miner is on the bench. The youth, under three sentences at life imprisonment and one term of from one to 14 years, will not be eligible for panto until bo has served 20 years.

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responding to treatment as well as can be expected. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson spent the weekend in Kendallville, visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs. Kenneth Bauman of Napoleon. Mich., spent ‘hr weekend with relatives here. Kermit Hocker, student of Kalamasoo. Mich., arived Thursday to visit with his parents. Mr. and Mm. O. O. Hocker for aeveral days. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hartman have rented the houae owne<p by Mra. Rena Johnson which was vacated Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Karl Ray who moved to the Buache farm home northeast of Monroe which was vacated by Mr. and Mrs Rene Brandt when they moved to the Hart property southeast of Monroe. Boch Funeral Rites Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Abraham A. Boch. former Decatur resident, who died Tuesday night at his home In Fort Wayne, will be held at 1 30 p. m Friday at the Gets A Cahlil funeral home In Fort Wayne. Rev. Charles H. Smith officiating. The body will be brought to the Decatur cemetery for burial. ■ ■ «■' - - To Bring Body To Local Cemetery The body of an Oak Park. Illinois man whose name was not learned here, is to be buried tomorrow morning in the Decatur cemetery after a brief service, following arrival of the body by express from Oak Park, where it was taken from the mouaoleum. Relatives, who made arrangements for the burial, explained that thvy were moving to this vicinity and dlaen teersd the body to move it to the local cemetery. o Annual production of canned fruit has Jumped from 4.4C7.8171 cases to 50,929.952 cases in the last 40 years, according io the Census Bureau. Latest producton figures from the Census Bureau show 44.503 1 farms grow 1.7*0,000 bushels of I pop-corn annually.

Beverages Board Conducts Hearings Two hearings were held Wednesday afternoon by the Adami county alcoholic beverage l>oard nr the • application for transfer of a beer license from Carl II Mies to Carl, II Mies and Aleda Buick; (he application for a transfer of a bear license from Clyde to Martin McGill. There were no object lona. Dallas M Hower, Hemy Dehner and Charles Zimmerman were hoard members present. Charles Heritage state memtier, was unable io attend because of haxardous driving conditions. . AMrs. William Anderson Dies Wednesday Night Mrs William Anderson. (4. a resident of Hartford tOW'ishlp. died at the Adams county memorial hospital at 7:30 o'clock W<-d neaday evening after an illness of four weeks of heart disease. She was born in French township March 11. 1(77. the daughter of Mr and Mra. Daniel Miller. She is survived by the husband, four daughters, six sons, a stepdaughter and three brothers. Fun-

igHa WHAT A I f jB a? ■■fl ? IHL I .vl R is H 3 ' I ’ Z*LJEEdZ IL* CO* Don’t utow d-'wn their appetites on fast DHIvelN LnEEwE X IDS Come a-fishin' in <tur ocean of Lenten F«iod« /■■■lg-R.A catch the Ihk values displayed for quirk. >9 AV \ \'2 lh. ho\CH 23c venient shopping. So downright delicious aid fl f avr»jK\ * downright low in price, these quality food- <dfl \\ rD|?4M IK Jour menu P roblems ••■My and wnomiafl WJoWT ' IxCj.A.vi — m. .».>€ and provide a welcome and healthful chaifl yfaOTss-trtMerajwxM/, in the daily diet of all. f EGGS "= doz. 27c |PABST-ETT * ll| LOBSTER I SALMON TI'NA FISH CRAB MEAT I Hithnt quality I Exira Fancy Pink IklMimle While Meal Fancy llwlily ■ READY-TO-EAT BI'TTERED J Spaghetti ‘~= ■6c BISCUITS dozJi PINEAPPLE, chunk and crush, can 15c SQS3SCWS3M ( BERRIES, sour pitted can 15c PEACHES tall can 10c RSEFI PRUNE JUICE, Sunaweet 10c llc«tnn r(iiiiimfwnx?l CHICKEN Noodle Soup, large can__ 11c Palwiolive -- 3 for ISfl UffiOßM i WHEATIES BUTTER BEANS Bath 8 '“ ' 3 J - n |.„ ( Tim( al Super Suds BUTTER Vwilox 1..» Price, enn. IOC Gjanl gjze J*! ideal - Uunricr. HERRING, salt fish 4 for 19c Vel, 2 Palmolive E 0 tjll% BOLOGNA, fresh ring lh. 15c Free - 25tl ■jOla 111 SLAB BACON th. 21c Giant size SPARE RIBS, meaty lb. 19c C. W. Soap - 6 for2stK LETTUCE Boneless Solid and Crisp f “ " "■ i®7Chead 21C ■ We Never Close-24 Hour Service! 1 i Ofll 1

vral servicM Will In* h<*ld ut M p. m Sunday at thn Linn Grove Evangelical church, Rev. Guorgv Holston officiating. Burial will lie in the Allwrson eem*>te>ry. near l-lnn Grow. -_ q — Cemetery Trustees In Annual Meeting Borno. Ind . Fvb 19 Tho annual husinoo mii-tlnx of tho bnnrd of I trustors of th» M. R. K. ctoioti-ry I wax hold how this wook. Tho board . appointed a group of throe to work with the special commltteo .iam«>d here rncently to work out details for the landscaping and general improvement of the cemetery. The thn-o-tnan group i« composed of L. L. Yager. E. M. Ray and Eli C. Stucky. The committee is to contact a landscaping expert at onre Berne Within $lO7 Os Red Cross Goal From the total reported up to . last evening, assurance was given ’ that Bertie would go over the top In the Red Cross war relief fund . drive, |»93.fl| of the ll.Mfl quota. - already being subscribed • Berne opened Its Red Cross drive

about leu days ago and the fund hoe grown steadily, being within 11(»7 of the goal. It l« believed th<HAM mark will be reached by the end of the week The total Red Cruse fund raised In thn county now exceeds |7.(mhi. ni ii a wmes— HOOSIERS LISTED continued num paob ow> let's mate (Pat. Indianapolis. Anthony Nickolas laniiarelll. pharmacist's mate 2nd class. Elk hart, Ind. Clinton Jerald Cramer, radioman let class. Greensbuig. Ind .Markle Tobla Ninilh. radioman' ’ Ist dees. Ihildln, Ind Francis Marlon Raymer, cox swain. Rochester. Ind Marine corp* personnel al Wake Fred <’. Behrens, Indla im polls: Walter A Bowahs-r, l.eesburg, Ind. Robert laiwrence Brown. Hammond, Ind.; Floyd Henry Davis. | Coatesville. Ind. Waller John Knictek. East Chicago. Ind. J Privates — Gus Jim Comlnua. Gary. Ind : Jack Edward Davis, 1 | IjiPorte. Ind : Dick la-on Reed, Bouih Whitley. Ind : Norman Max I well Reeg. MPorte. Ind : Corp.

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